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Title	Birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937
Description	Photograph of a birdseye view of Wilshire Boulevard looking north-west, ca.1937. Wilshire Boulevard is at center and runs from the foreground at left into the background at right. Figueroa Street intersects at it center. There is a lot of traffic on the left side of the boulevard, while very few cars can be seen on the right. Several large buildings line Wilshire: Dinsmore Apartments can be seen in the background at center and right, while in the middle at left is Paul G. Hoffman Studebaker dealership. La Salle University is on the corner of Wilshire and Figueroa.; Legible signs include, from left to right: "Alka Seltzer", "Studebaker Service", "The Dinsmore Apartments", "Associated", "Inside Parking 15¢", "Garage", and "10".; Originally, the image was captured as "Birdseye view looking south on Figueroa Street between Twelfth Street and Pico Boulevard, ca.1937".
Subject	Dinsmore Apartments; LaSalle University
Subject (adlf)	streets
Subject (file heading)	Los Angeles -- Streets -- Figueroa
Subject (lcsh)	Streets Apartment houses
Geographic subject (roadway)	Wilshire Boulevard; Figueroa Street
Geographic subject (city or populated place)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (county)	Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1937
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1937
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	negatives (photographic) photographs
Accession number	33260
Call number	CHS-33260
Identifying number	isla id: S-4700
Legacy record ID	chs-m234; USC-0-1-1-234
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-33260
Archival file	chs_Volume32/CHS-33260.tiff

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